{"id":21108,"date":"2025-08-22T22:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21108"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:14:41","slug":"daily_3825_-_franken-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/08\/22\/daily_3825_-_franken-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3825 – franken-pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the kids are here, we cook a proper dinner every day and eat together. On the weeks when they are away, I usually start the week with a bunch of leftovers. When those start to run out, I often have leftover ingredients that guide my meals. A forgotten vegetable, half a bottle of juice… Things that would be gone in a day if it was three people eating, but that last me a while when it’s just me. I don’t need to do much grocery shopping at all on my “off” weeks.<\/p>\n

Today I was faced with two carrots that were starting to look sad and wrinkly. Two forgotten potatoes. Half a package of quark. All on their last legs, really needing to be eaten.<\/p>\n

I’ve made plenty of carrot pancakes before, and potato pancakes, and quark pancakes. If each of those can be put in a pancake batter, what do I get if I put all three together (and throw in some eggs and flour)? Franken-pancakes? Frankcakes? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the kids are here, we cook a proper dinner every day and eat together. On the weeks when they are away, I usually start the week with a bunch of leftovers. When those start to run out, I often have leftover ingredients that guide my meals. A forgotten vegetable, half a bottle of juice… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21109,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21108\/revisions\/21109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}